The art of the possible (eBook, ePUB)

Politics and governance in modern British history, 1885-1997: Essays in memory of Duncan Tanner
Redaktion: Williams, Chris; Edwards, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores some of the major transitions, opportunities and false dawns of modern British political history. It engages with the scholarly legacy of Professor Duncan Tanner (1958-2010) whose work was focused on the political process and on politics in government. Chronologically its span runs from the first general election to be conducted under the terms of the Third Reform Act through to the 1997 referenda in favour of devolved assemblies in Scotland and Wales. This was the period in which British politicians most obviously addressed a mass, British-wide electorate, seeking national approval for policies and programmes to be enacted on a UK-wide basis. Aimed at scholars and students of modern British history this volume will also interest the general reader who wishes to get to grips with some of the latest thinking about British politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784991579
• Artikelnr.: 48796430

Autorenporträt

Chris Williams is Professor of History and Head of the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University Andrew Edwards is Senior Lecturer in History and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Bangor University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Duncan Tanner and the art of the possible
Chris Williams 1. The making and remaking of 'common sense' about British economic policy
Peter Clarke 2. The 'big state' versus the 'Big Society' in twentieth
century Britain
Pat Thane 3. 'One meaning blots out another'? Liberals and Labour in the east midlands coalfield
David Howell 4. Cartooning the rise of Labour, 1900
21
Chris Williams 5. Novels for 'thinking people': fiction and the inter
war broad left
Steven Fielding 6. Myth and counter
myth in Second World War British politics
Andrew Thorpe 7. Labour, nationalism and the problem of Welsh devolution, c.1939
64
Andrew Edwards 8. Defending the constitution: the Conservative party and the idea of devolution, 1945
74
Matthew Cragoe 9. Public and private languages of 'class' in the Luton by
election of 1963
Jon Lawrence 10. Community and the Labour left in 1970s London
John Davis 11. Labour, the Union and the rebirth of Welsh devolution
Mari Elin Wiliam Duncan Tanner: a select bibliography
Chris Williams Index